THE NFL:Preseason Week 2, Winners

After watching the affectation Leon Washington put on in the aboriginal bisected of Monday night's game, is there any agnosticism the 5-foot-8, 195-pound aback is the Jets a lot of admired player? He didn't advance the NFL in accumulated yardage endure division by fluke. New York needs to get an addendum done with this guy because his amount tag appears to be headed in alone one direction, and that's up.

On the Jets' aperture 5 drives of the aboriginal half, which coincided with Sanchez's night's work, Washington had a duke in creating 80 of New York's 121 yards of offense. He accomplished with 83 yards of hasty and accepting in the aboriginal half, including the Jets' aboriginal touchdown, and added a 52-yard alpha acknowledgment in his appropriate teams role. Washington adapted three third-and-long situations to about alone accumulate New York's aboriginal bisected from getting an abhorrent disaster. He took a awning canyon 16 yards on third-and-12, ran for 15 yards on a third-and-10 and bent his 19-yard touchdown canyon on a third-and-9, assault Ravens linebacker Jameel McClain in a one-on-one mismatch.

As it turns out, trading arch drillmaster Herman Edwards to Kansas City for the fourth-round aces they acclimated to abstract Washington in 2006 was one of the shrewdest moves the Jets anytime made.